QuarkXPress 7 Passport Review
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Features:
These features listed are only the new features of QuarkXPress 7 that aren't in any other version of XPress. The rest of the features can be found on Quark's website.
Basic functionality and navigation
- Unify major functionality in a single location with tabbed Measurements palette
- Apply colors with a single action from Measurements palette
- Use keyboard shortcuts to tab through Measurements palette
- Use improved space/align controls on the Measurements palette
- Create tabs quickly and accurately with new Measurements palette controls and guides
- Save screen real estate by using palette groups and sets
- Organize your workspace with palette smart snapping
- Switch image alpha channels on the fly from Measurements palette
- Open and edit QuarkXPress Passport® files with single-language versions of QuarkXPress
- Apply language settings at the character level
Layout, design, and graphics management
- Apply individual opacity settings at the color level to text, box backgrounds, frames, lines, blend colors, etc.
- Support alpha channels in imported images
- Control layer opacity and blending mode of imported PSD files
- Automatically flatten with resolution control
- Export transparent PNG images from Web layouts
- Apply soft drop shadows to page items
- Skew, offset, and scale drop shadows
- Synchronize drop shadow angles throughout the layout
- Create text runaround from drop shadows
- Use independent or inherited item opacity and shadow opacity
- Knock out drop shadow with item
- Multiply drop shadow to combine drop shadows with objects below the shadow
- Synchronize boxes, pictures, text, and lines
- Synchronize attributes (color, transformations, picture effects, styles, etc.)
- Work in single-layout mode to simplify file naming
- Append layouts within projects for easy content sharing
- Export layouts into individual files or save them as an earlier version
- Use split window view
- Display multiple windows for the same layout
- Use native transparency and drop shadows in Web layouts
- Import Shockwave® Flash™ (SWF) files for interactivity in Web pages
- Export vector objects and text as SWF from Web layouts
- Benefit from superior smoothing with the new graphics engine
- Export anti-aliased graphics from Web layout
- Render shapes and rotate text more smoothly with the new graphics engine
- Apply Blur and Diffuse to alpha mask
- Integrate image formatting with shared content feature
- Edit contrast curves numerically
- Integrate alpha mask with existing layer opacity and blending mode features
- Control content flow by linking text cells within a table or linking tables to each other
Printing and production
- Use Composition Zones™ technology to share layouts among multiple projects and workstations with live updates
- Use Composition Zones technology to design simultaneously in multiple media types or layout sizes
- Use Composition Zones technology to divide a page for collaborative design
- Synchronize design settings (among multiple users)
- Synchronize color management settings (among multiple users)
- Initiate jobs from tickets with built-in production settings
- Customize preflighting and automatically evaluate layout at output, open, save
- Access Job Jackets™ Manager for advanced users such as printers, who can provide Job Jackets to clients
- Use JDF-compatible settings
- Send real-time updates on all Job Jacket settings to layouts
- Use always-on, always profile-based color management
- Automatically monitor profile detection
- Bundle key settings of source and output setups for color management
- Use casual and advanced modes for color management
- Easily soft proof files on-screen
- Simulate various output devices on-screen, such as grayscale
- Embed CMM preferences in layouts
- Use LogoSync for black point compensation
- Color manage whole workgroups with live updates via Quark Job Jackets files
- Use presets for major color management standards
- Color manage non-destructive image color correction
- Color manage vector EPS and PDF files
- Emulate color transformations of previous versions of QuarkXPress via ICC profiles
- Access numerous additional advanced settings for color management
- Create, share, and use PDF Output styles
- Use preset standard PDF styles for typical workflows
- Gain support for PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3
- Export PDF with JDF
- Evaluate PDF/X criteria during layout
- Verify based on standard Callas libraries
- Create smaller PDF file size through optimization and preset use
Text processing
- Use OpenType font features including:
- Standard and discretionary ligatures
- Cross-platform support for ligatures
- Ligatures on-the-fly
- Ordinals
- Titling alternates
- All small caps
- Fractions
- Swashes
- Contextual alternates
- Proportional Figures
- Tabular Figures
- Oldstyle Figures
- Lining Figures
- Superscript and subscript
- Numerator and denominator
- Case-sensitive forms and capital spacing
- Historical forms
- Kern
- Ornaments
- Scientific inferiors
- Cross-stream ("vertical") kerning pairs
- OpenType styling support in Find/Change
- OpenType styling support in XPress Tags
- OpenType Kerning Preference
- Glyphs palette
- Insert Invisibles from Glyphs palette or Utilities menu
- New glyphs for invisible characters
- Font fallback to find correct font for unsupported characters
- Standard and discretionary ligatures
- Find related alternate glyphs through the alternate glyph window in the Glyphs palette
- Store and access favorite glyphs
- Insert special characters from a menu
- Access style sheets through any character attribute location, including Measurements palette
- Revert paragraph attributes without removing local character formatting
- Change Case
- New default values for standard H&Js
- Five new default H&Js including "No Hyphenation"
- Paragraph rules can be set at "Column" length
PPML, XML, and media-independent publishing
- Export PPML for custom printing
- Use PPML consumers/output style
- Import XML for variable data
-Source from Quark's website: http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/features.html